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High Drama: Film festival brings peek at mountain life to Kaw Valley

There is a sizable contingent of local flatlanders who relish mountain sports. Thanks to those folks, the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Lawrence has snowballed the last nine years.

Paragliders crash land

Five pilots lost control and crash landed their paragliders Friday night at the Slugfest 2010 Powered Paragliding Festival in Cumberland County.

Ore. excavation manager pursues paragliding

BROWNSVILLE, Ore. (AP) — An excavation manager during the week turns paraglider pilot on the weekends. Jim Tice of Corvallis straps a 25-horsepower engine to his back on weekends to take to the air with a powered paraglider. Tice was among more than 30 pilots of experimental aircraft who attended the seventh annual Mid-Valley Fly-In at the Ken Sayer farm east of Brownsville this week. The 51 ...

Paraglider living ‘every kid’s dream’

BROWNSVILLE — Jim Tice of E.D. Hughes Excavating in Philomathspends his weekdays managing dirt moving projects.

'It's the scariest thing I have ever done'

On the weekends, Jim Tice straps an engine to his back and turns his attention skyward.